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CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

THE BRAINS: “Electric Eden” (Mercury):: Put in enough time with this one and despite its dull initial impact every track will give a hook—a dull hook, perhaps, but in these brite days there’s a kind of satisfaction in that. The problem is that.

July 1, 1981
Robert Christgau

CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

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Robert Christgau

THE BRAINS: “Electric Eden” (Mercury):: Put in enough time with this one and despite its dull initial impact every track will give a hook—a dull hook, perhaps, but in these brite days there’s a kind of satisfaction in that. The problem is that. the hooks don’t connect too much—when the most memorable lyric on the major-label followup is about how that guy has got her hypnotized, you begin to wonder just what money has changed, and how. B

THE CRAMPS: “Psychedelic Jungle” (I.R.S.):: After setting the mood with two obscure sureshots from the Pebbles anthology (why wasn’t “Green Fuz” a hit?), En Why’s own mock rockabillies come up with an actual novelty album instead of a theoretical one. If only there weren’t these jokes about rape, voodoo, and jungle folk (at least they’re not called “bunnies,” although they do “hop”), I might still be chuckling. B

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